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Keck Telescopes
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Caption: The two Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai`i. These two telescopes are reflecting telescopes with primary mirrors 10m across.
Credit: NASA/JPL
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Glosar de termeni:
Infrared Astronomy , Observatory , Optical Astronomy , Reflecting Telescope
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Telescopes, Instruments and Observatories
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ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory with a lunar halo
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Caption: The Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal in Chile has four reflecting telescopes each with a primary mirror 8.2m across. In this image one dome is open and firing laser beams into the sky. These lasers create artificial stars in the sky that can be used to adjust the telescope optics to remove the blurring effect of the Earth's atmosphere. This process is known as adaptive optics.
In the sky the Moon is surrounded by a bright halo. This is caused by light from the moon reflecting inside ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere.
Credit: Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos/ESO
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Glosar de termeni:
Observatory , Adaptive Optics , Halo
Categories:
Telescopes, Instruments and Observatories
License: Creative Commons Atribuire 4.0 Internațional (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Atribuire 4.0 Internațional (CC BY 4.0) icons
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